The Association for Real Estate Securitization (ARES) (Chairman: Hiromichi Iwasa, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc. (President & CEO: Atsushi Saito) announce that J-REIT Flash, a service providing English investment information on J-REITs, was launched today as part of the information services of Thomson Reuters to promote investment in J-REITs by foreign investors. The service is available on Thomson Reuters Real Estate (reutersrealestate.com) and Reuters Knowledge/Thomson ONE.
J-REIT Flash was launched on Bloomberg Professional®, an information service operated by Bloomberg L.P. in October 2010. This service will now also be available from Thomson Reuters.
J-REIT Flash provides same-day English summaries of major Japanese language press releases of all listed J-REITs. The service was designed to meet the needs of foreign investors who seek a one-stop source providing investment information on all listed J-REITs in English on the same day as their announcement in Japanese.
A large amount of J-REIT IR information is available in English on the English websites of individual J-REITs and through other sources. However, with no scheme established for providing foreign investors with comprehensive English information on J-REITs, there was the need to set up an information infrastructure that provides wider and timelier coverage to serve foreign investors. The service provided by J-REIT Flash transforms the J-REIT market into a more accessible market for global investors and promotes capital inflow, enabling expectations for further stimulation of the Japanese real estate investment market.
Overview of services provided by J-REIT Flash:
- Timely posting of English summaries of major disclosures in Japanese by all listed J-REITs, posted on the same day (in principle)
- Timely posting of information disclosed in English by J-REITs, including English press releases disclosed on their English websites
- Timely posting of the English monthly ARES J-REIT Report